Given increasing food costs, cultivating a garden, especially a vegetable garden, is an excellent way to guarantee that your family…
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Organic Vs. Conventional Gardening: Which Is Better For Your Home Garden
If you’ve visited a nursery or garden center, you’ve surely noticed plants, soil, and garden products labeled as organic. But…
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How One Packet of Tomato Seeds Launched A Gardening Business
As a new gardening season begins, I’d like to share how my passion for gardening and helping gardeners succeed grew…
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Timing Is Everything: How to Plan Your Seed-Starting Schedule
Spring arrives March 20th—58 days from today, and as you see, I’m eagerly counting the days! My seed catalogs, dog-eared…
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Seed Magic: How Germination Occurs and Why It Can Fail
I love growing my own vegetable plants from seed. It’s a bit magical given that inside each small, nondescript seed…
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Seed Starting Essentials: How to Germinate Difficult Seed
Starting garden vegetables and flowers from seed is relatively easy, and most seeds don’t need any special treatment to germinate….
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